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Are Your Commie Children Right?

Adam Gopnik’s defense of liberalism
Malcolm Harris

Vlad Handing

Tony Wood’s latest book challenges perceptions of Putin as a shadowy puppet master
Greg Afinogenov
Judith Bernstein, Equality, 1995, charcoal on paper, 47 1/2 × 63". From “Judith Bernstein: Cabinet of Horrors,” The Drawing Center, New York, courtesy the artist.

The Alt-Write

From the archives: A dystopian novel comments on the world as we know it
Fiona Maazel
Minae Mizumura

I Confess

An excerpt from Japan’s first bilingual, semiautobiographical novel
Minae Mizumura
Ming Smith, Greyhound Bus, Pittsburgh, 1991, gelatin silver print. From the series "August Moon for August Wilson," 1991.

Home Truths

The artful, community-minded photography of Ming Smith
David O’Neill
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Lauren Oyler. Photo: Pete Voelker.
Marty Baron retires; Lauren Oyler on her debut novel
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David Litt
From the archives: An Obama speechwriter’s comic memoir
Tom Carson
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Chantal Akerman, Woman Sitting after Killing, 2001, still from the seven-channel video component (color, sound, 5 minutes 38 seconds) of a mixed-media installation additionally comprising seven monitors.
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Louis Malle, My Dinner with André, 1981. André Gregory. edit
A legendary director’s larger-than-life memoir
Nathan Taylor Pemberton
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Two poems from Terminalia
Daniel Menaker
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Diana Markosian, Mom by the Pool, 2019, ink-jet print, 26 x 40".
A photographer restages her childhood as her mother’s favorite soap opera
Audrey Wollen
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